Definition of "flying fox" []

• Any of various fruit-eating bats of the suborder Megachiroptera, chiefly inhabiting tropical Africa, Asia, and Australia and having a foxlike muzzle and small, pointed ears. (noun)

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• "The echidna, two species of rats, a flying fox (PTEROPUS FUNEREUS) and two bats, comprise the list."
• "West then slung a compact handlebar-like flying fox over the rope and pushed off—"